On 24 Oct 2010, at 18:48, Thomas Clement wrote: > On 24 oct. 2010, at 19:03, eveningnick eveningnick wrote: > >> Hello! >> I am wondering, if NSTask can be replaced with low-level fork/exec >> calls. Looking through forums, i often met statements that launching a >> process with "fork/exec" is not an "OS X way", especially if i am >> using Cocoa framework (and i am using Cocoa!). > > Yes you can use fork/exec, that's what NSTask does.
FWIW, the "modern" UNIX way is to use posix_spawn(), which has some advantages over fork()/exec(). There's nothing wrong with using fork()/exec() or posix_spawn() in a Cocoa app, though do note that what you can do between the fork() and exec() calls is extremely limited---higher level frameworks, Cocoa included, are generally totally off-limits at that point. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
